March 28, 2017 — Young rabbits exposed to ultrasound during fetal development had weaker thighbones than unexposed ...
March 27, 2017 — iCAD announced that PowerLook Tomo Detection received Premarket Approval (PMA) from the U.S. Food and ...
March 27, 2017 — Bracco Diagnostics Inc. announced the launch of its PROTOCO2L TOUCH Colon Insufflator. This device is ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
March 27, 2017 — Radiation therapists and physicians know that education can reduce anxiety before radiation treatment ...
A new study offers hope for patients with recurrent lung cancer, who historically have been considered ineligible for curative treatment. In the largest analysis to date of re-irradiation using intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) for lung and other thoracic tumors, more than three-fourths of patients were free from local recurrence at one year following retreatment, and fewer than one in ten patients experienced severe side effects. The study was presented at the 2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium, March 14-16 in San Diego.
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Medsquare announced the integration of the organ dose module VirtualDose CT into its DACS (dose archive and communication system) Radiation Dose Monitor (RDM) solution. Developed in partnership with Virtual Phantoms Inc., this new module will be added to RDM’s existing features. It was presented for the first time at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 1-5 in Vienna, Austria.
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March 24, 2017 — Facing the reality of not having enough votes to secure its passage, House leadership withdrew the ...
Safe implementation of new technologies and therapies accompany classic patient safety challenges on ECRI Institute's “2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.” The report highlights concerns from health information management, clinical decision support and new oral anticoagulants, to long-standing concerns like test result reporting and follow-up and unrecognized patient deterioration.
GE Healthcare announced the launch of its new Senographe Pristina mammography system, designed to make breast screening more comfortable and inviting for patients.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
Carestream announced that it provided a DRX Plus 3543 digital X-ray detector for the 2017 National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine in Indianapolis to aid in physical examinations for top college football players. The detector was used with the existing X-ray system at Lucas Oil Stadium; additional tests were conducted at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
ContextVision recently received a patent approval on a new skeletal visualization technology for 3-D ultrasound.
March 23, 2017 — Swedish healthcare provider Danderyd Hospital AB has signed a five-year contract with Sectra for the ...
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
March 23, 2017 — Urology specialists at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit) have begun using the UroNav ...
Profound Medical Corp. announced that it has successfully completed the first sale of a TULSA-PRO system in Finland to the Turku University Hospital (“Tyks”). The deal was completed in collaboration with Philips, who is working in partnership with Profound to commercialize the TULSA-PRO system in Europe.
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Carestream Health will show its Carestream Touch Prime and Touch Prime XE Ultrasound Systems at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine convention, March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla. Both premium systems are designed for general diagnostic imaging use in radiology.
Samsung NeuroLogica announced that its portable computed tomography (CT) technology will be included in Carolinas HealthCare System’s Levine Cancer Institute’s innovative Mobile Lung CT Unit. The unit will bring lung cancer diagnosis and intervention to underserved populations in the Carolinas.
An emerging approach for cancer treatment seeks to combine radiation therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs) to more effectively control tumors in the chest with an acceptable risk of severe treatment-related side effects. Ten percent of patients in a retrospective analysis of metastatic lung cancer experienced severe toxicity as a result of the combination therapy. Findings were presented at the 2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium, March 16-18 in San Francisco.
March 21, 2017 — Toshiba Medical demonstrated its Forward projected model-based Iterative Reconstruction SoluTion (FIRST ...
A new imaging biomarker may help predict which children will take longer to recover from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a preliminary study published online in Neurology.
EchoPixel recently announced progress in the clinical adoption of its True 3D virtual reality software in pediatric surgical procedures. At several leading clinical sites, the company said surgeons and radiologists are adopting True 3D powered by HP to develop surgical plans, effectively communicate in a common 3-D language, and assist in challenging procedures - including a 17-hour operation to separate conjoined twins.